Vangelis Composed a Soundtrack for the Rosetta Mission

The comet mission has its own cinematic soundtrack now.

This morning the European Space Agency made history by landing the first spacecraft, the Philae lander of the Rosetta mission, on the surface of a comet. The 10-year, 4-billion-mile journey has a properly cinematic soundtrack, too: The ESA commissioned Vangelis to compose three sweeping musical numbers for Rosetta, concluding with the just-released "Rosetta's Waltz" above.

Here are the other two pieces of music.

Many of you probably heard the theme from Chariots of Fire pop into your head upon reading the name Vangelis for the first time in years. For the rest of you who are thinking, "huh?", just enjoy this blast of pure 1980s: